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Go From Creator to Founder: Build Systems and Structures That Set You Free
If you spend more time on emails and invoices than on creative work, your business is running you—let’s fix that. Most creatives launch their businesses with passion and talent but quickly get overwhelmed by contracts,...
The California Freelance Worker Protection Act: How Businesses and Freelancers Can Use It To Collaborate Powerfully
California’s Freelance Worker Protection Act (FWPA) empowers businesses and freelancers to collaborate better. For years, we’ve worked with freelancers and the businesses that hire them and seen how the old way of working led to...
5 Steps to Master Copyright Licensing To Grow Your Revenue Streams As A Creative
Are you leaving money on the table by selling your copyrights instead of renting them? If so, you’re not alone, but we will change that. Many creative entrepreneurs unknowingly sell their copyrights for far less...
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Patent License Agreements: Why and How
It’s not unlikely that an inventor will eventually come across the topic of patent license agreements. Patent license agreements are commonly used to help develop and commercialize patented items and can be a great source of revenue for the patent owner, spurring...
Startups and Lawsuits
Venture capitalist Mark Suster recently wrote a great post on startups and lawsuits (and the logic can apply to businesses that aren’t traditionally considered “startups”) and since thrust of his post seems to be about how to keep startups out of court, I wanted to...
Strategies for Legal Protection of Intellectual Property
Last night I was talking to a friend, who also happens to be a designer launching her own venture – she wanted to know more about legal protection of intellectual property. It’s a topic that I have talked about on this blog in a few other posts, but I wanted to share...
To Stop A Cybersquatter
There are a few ways to stop a cybersquatter – a cybersquatter being a person who has illegally purchased a domain name associated with your brand or trademark in order to sell it to you for a high price. One popular method of stopping cybersquatters is to use ICANN’s...